REGARDING ‘Can’t Take Away Right to Choose’ (Lennox Herald, February 17).

There is no right to choose to kill human life, however powerful the social/other motivation. The mass, voluntary killing of human life is a crime against humanity.

The Declaration of Geneva was worded to protect all human life – first, from its “conception” later, from its “beginning”.

Child-killing proponents created linguistic uncertainty, not to adapt to modernity, but to falsely ‘re-cast’ a grave crime as a legitimate freedom.

Choice is an imperative right. It does not supersede the right of life, which is the most basic human right and belongs to every member of the human family. Abortion – the voluntary killing of pre-natal human life – is violence akin to murder, not a matter of choice like contraception.

There is no more a right to choose it than there is to choose rape, slavery or torture.

The voluntary killing of human life is not a ‘medical’ question. Operations to save a woman’s life are not the crime of abortion, as killing in self-defence is not murder.

Choosing to kill born/unborn human life is respectively homicide/abortion.

Guarding life is the first duty of the rule of law. It is required of every doctor by the laws of humanity themselves, which guard all human life universally, underpin the rule of law and are not subject to manipulation.

Suggesting we could not cope without permissively killing human life is barbaric and irrelevant.

Nuremburg/Geneva were meant to give effect to the laws of humanity, in order to guard all human life, not to allow their ‘modification’ to permit the mass killing of human life to suit social interests, however significant. They are not capable of that.